Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I must admit I prefer to create a love/loving theme card when it comes to Valentine’s cards. That way, they can be used beyond one day. As you can see from my non-traditional one layer Valentine’s card, this card can easily be given to a friend for a variety of occasions.

First, I cut the top folding card base from Bristol smooth paper. I wanted to create a selfie card and to keep it one layer I used the masking and reverse masking techniques. I created a reverse square mask with a square die and masking paper. I positioned the reverse mask onto the card base and stamped the astronaut and alien with Intense Black ink.

They were then masked before the outer space distress ink background was created (Twisted Citron, Wilted Violet, Peacock Feathers, Black Soot). To complete the look, it was spritz with water and splattered with white pigment reinker.

The masks were removed and the images were coloured with Zig markers and a watercolor brush. I used a ruler and black Copic multiliner to draw a border around the square. I used a rectangle die to trace the rectangle. I also used the masking technique to customize the sentiment. The hearts were stamped with Real Red ink.

To give it some depth, I masked the rectangle and blended really “toned” down Black Soot around it. For a little shimmer, I added clear Wink of Stella to the space background. To finish, a few silver sequins were added.

Update: Some of you are in disbelief that this is truly a one layer card, so I recorded a short video which I hope will clear things up. 😉